LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 February 1925, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

lii connection with an ; accident near Manaia a few days ago, 'an eye-witness called at the Star Office to-day, and stated that the young lady who was injured was not knocked down by the motor car.

There is every probability that there will be three candidates for the mayoralty at Eltham at the April elections. Those mentioned by the Argus are Mr G. W. Tavler (present occupant of office), Mr I. J. Bridger, and Mr, 6. H. P. Fitz Gerald.

The Oaonui irrigation has been in full flow since the beginning of this month (says the Opunake Times). Water is supplied to the parched area within the large scope of the society’s jurisdiction. At the annual meeting of the Egmont County Schools’ Sports Association at Opunake, a balance-sheet of £5 4s was reported. Owing to the Health Department ’s restrictions no date was suggested for the next sports meeting, and it appeared likely as if it would have to be abandoned this year.

The subject of the representation in Parliament of manufacturing interests received strong support at a meeting of the Industrial Association at Wanganui. It was pointed out that the manufacturing classes were not directly represented m Parliament, whereas other classes of the community were fully represented. ■ The traditional reputation, that a Scotsman lias for canniness was badly dented in Christchurch, on Saturday At the laying of the foundation stone or the Berwick Street Presbyterian Church about 120 people were present. A collection was ,taken up, and ii realised —£91.

Some men make a practice of losing umbrellas, and others sometimes arrive home with a wrong hat, but one would imagine that it would be a much more difficult matter for a butcher’s or baker’s bov to part company .with his trade basket. However, there has lain in the Hawera Post Office for about a month a basket of this type. It was left one day in the public office, and the owner has not been heard of since.

The hack country settler, who, with coat on the side of the bank and shovel in band, toils in spreading metal, on the roads in his locality, often receives a “knock-back” when he complains of his lot to the local authority. A memher of a deputation who waited on the Patea County Council yesterday, pointed out that "he had been doing work on the road fronting his property, only to see a lumbering motor lorry destroy the surface he had so carefully prepared. “Oh well,” said the chairman, ‘‘the recording angel will not forget your kind actions.”

At the Mavy Teague conference' a. Canterbury remit advocating that fiot only a. second but a third cruiser should be added to the New Zealand division of the navy was carried together with an Auckland remit expressing the strong conviction that until New Zealand contributes on an equal per capita basis with Britain, New Zealand was not bearing a fair share of the burden.

Advice has. been received that the new judge, Mr. Justice Alpers, has been attached to the Wellington judicial district. His Honour will take up his new duties at Napier in a fortnight’s time. It is worthy of mention that when Mr. Justice Alpers arrived in the Dominion 48 years_ ago he settled with his parents, in Napier. He was educated at the Napier School and later served there as a pupil teacher.

With the object of inducing the Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) to spend more time in Christchurch than his predecessors have done, the Mayor (Mr. .J. A. FJesher) suggested at a meeting of the Christchurch City Council that the Government should provide a. vice-regal, residence in Christchurch, and that the city council should undertake the care of the residence while the Governor-General is not in occupation.

Application lias been mado to His Honor Sir William Sim for a grant of Srobate of the will of the late Mr. (oration A. Massey, of Invercargill, timber merchant, who died suddenly at Invercargill shortlv before Christmas. The estate to be administered will probably be about £500,000 which after payment of death duty, etc., will be held in trust.

It is understood, says a Welliiigton Press Association message, that a combination of manufacturers at Home, either alone or in association with manufacturers in New Zealand, is fixing the nrices in New Zealand upon certain lines of electrical goods, notably cable and lamps. In regard to the latter a noticeable increase in price has taken place during the last two months. It is gathered from the trade that the matter of the fixtion of price is one entirely beyond their control. It was also ascertained from certain power hoards that there is an increase in the prices of cable, which is materially affecting present house-wir-ing contracts. Some very interesting experiments have been' made by Mr Harold Schmidt, chemist, of Auckland, who claims that he has traced a connection between infantile paralysis and fireblight (says the Auckland Star). Mr Schmidt made a culture from leaves affected by fireblight and injected some hypodermically into an old rooster and a young duck. Upon the old rooster no effect was manifest, but the young duck subsequently developed lameness. Mr Schmidt points out that fireblight attacks young trees and infantile paralysis attacks young children, and he also draws other analogies.

An instance of incompetent driving which was rather amusing, was told In councillor at yesterday’s meeting of the Patea. County Council, when the matter of issuing drivers’ licenses was being discussed. A friend of his. who ueTl to call frequently at his residence, was in the habit of driving his ear at a good speed right uu to within a few feet of the gate and then pulling up suddenly. One day his friend’s wife arrived. and seeking to emulate her husband’s example raised a cloud of dust in her hurried approach to the gate. For some unaccountable reason the vehicle refused to act in its usual manner, and realising that it was now too late, she raised herself in the sent and straining backwards, with a firm grip of the wheel, screamed 1 Whoa! ‘‘There was a broken gate,” said the councillor, “but I repaired the damage without grumbling, as I considered she had done her best. Prices for cotton, silk and wool have advanced, but during the end-of-season sale Harrop’s prices are lower than ever. This is your opportunity to re stock at prices much beloiv normal values. —Harrops Ltd. WE ’LL PATENT YOUR INVENTION IN ALL COUNTRIES. Wherever you want patent rights secured over your invention expeditiously and economically, use our expert, efficient service. Advice freely given. —Henry Hughes Ltd., Patent Attorneys, 157 Featherston St., Wellington. —1